The cause of the failure of the Roanoke colony
A. was a severe food shortage.
B. is historically inconclusive.
C. deterred the English from another colonizing effort for forty years.
D. was a virulent malarial epidemic.
E. was the death of the colony's governor.
Answer: B
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A) urbanization. B) the gap between elites and common people. C) the economic isolation of rural areas. D) food prices. E) workers' leisure time.
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What will be an ideal response?
Anticolonialism in Asia was aided by all of the following except
A) the sudden ending of the war in the Pacific. B) Japanese encouragement during the war. C) the Japanese helped local nationalists create patriotic militias. D) Dutch influence on the Indonesian nationalist movement. E) successful reassertion of European control.
What type of rhetoric marked Franklin Roosevelt's 1936 presidential campaign?
A. an appeal for fiscal conservatism and an attack on high spending B. an attack on wealthy and corporate interests C. an appeal for unity that did not blame any political or social parties D. a factual, unemotional tone unmarked by partisanship